[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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an engine room aft, where a one-1/82 cylinder kerosene engine is in- stalled which drives her along at a speed of about seven knots an hour under favorable conditions. When Peter reached the "Clivet" that Sunday morning he had with Proceeding provisions from the schooner him four Eskimos. Leaving two of them on board the schooner we started for Etah in the afternoon, taking Sigdlu and Hendrik as our crew, and the schooner's jolly boat as our tender. Sigdlu was one of the four Eskimos who accompanied Peary to the North Pole in 1909. In spite of his vigor and his prowess as a hunter, he is quite a dandy, for an Eskimo, and likes to look well and attract favorable attention. Hendrik, who unlike the Smith Sound Eskimos has a surname, which is Ohlsen, be-